Improving computation of cardiovascular relative pressure fields from velocity MRI

To evaluate a multigrid‐based solver for the pressure Poisson equation (PPE) with Galerkin coarsening, which works directly on the specified domain, for the computation of relative pressure fields from velocity MRI data.

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